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Housewife. ". . . It is still every woman's ideal to have a five-room cottage in the country, thank goodness. . . . Women must be taught not to poke loaves of bread with their fingers or squeeze dill pickles." ?President Mrs. Franklin W. Fritchey* of the National Housewives Alliance...
...when the newspaper correspondents of that city, with the politically great as their guests, met to hold the annual meeting of the Grid Iron Club. It is the one occasion when they can all be good fellows together. The legislative lions are supposed to smile when the literary jackals poke good natured fun at their foibles and failures, and it is an iron clad rule that none of the guests' speeches shall appear in print. Heretics have whispered that the addresses would not be catastrophic if they were released. Certainly the privilege of mocking the mighty was not abused...
This year there will be more poke-checking and less body checking. One of the new rules legalizes forward passing out as far as the 60 foot mark provided a player is in his own zone. Another provision and one which will make possible larger scores than before cuts down the goal guard's padding. Formerly a lucky goal guard could stop many passes with but little effort because of his bulk, most of which was padding...
King Albert and a slender lady in lavender whom many of the Legionaries thought must be a young princess "or something," stood in front of a fireplace in the palace to receive the callers. Commander Savage and Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson had to poke and pull some of the delegates to show them that the slender lady was Queen Elizabeth, with whom they might shake hands also. Ambassador Gibson introduced the delegation by saying: "There they are, your Majesty. They have fought at Oudenarde, Courtrai, Bruges and Ghent...
...Petra, abandoned stone city of northern Arabia, a Bedouin started great excitement by happening to poke a certain boulder in a certain way and, later, telling what he had seen. The boulder had tilted, dropping him into a shallow vault, then crashed shut. Feeling his way through Stygian passages for perhaps half a mile, he reached (he said) a large, lighted chamber whence six other tunnels burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba...